It's A Motherf*cker' - Eels (Don't let the title put you off; it's achingly beautiful!)
This Masquerade - The Carpenters
Long Long Long - Beatles
Young and Innocent Days- Kinks
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time - Smiths
Ooh, I could go on and on. But I wont.
Edit: Well, I'll just add 'Cloudbusting' and pretty much all of 'The Ninth Wave' sequence of 'Hounds of Love' by Kate Bush.
My immortal by evanescence is simply a beautiful song and part if the lyrics remind me if my feeling about my late mother
Truly madly deeply by savage garden. It was the last song I can remember my mother saying she really liked. When I get married this will be my first dance, my mum won't be there so this is her contribution
Agnus Dei the choir version with barbers adagio for strings. A fantastic piece of music and one I want at my funeral.
Stay Another Day by East 17 always reminds me of when my mum was seriously ill in hospital when I was little . Everytime I hear it around Christmas time it always makes me realise how lucky I am to have my mum around.
For me it just felt wrong seeing all the recent parodies of the song, given what the song & lyrics mean to me and my family, as well as the guy who wrote the song originally.
It's A Motherf*cker' - Eels (Don't let the title put you off; it's achingly beautiful!)
This Masquerade - The Carpenters
Long Long Long - Beatles
Young and Innocent Days- Kinks
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time - Smiths
Ooh, I could go on and on. But I wont.
Edit: Well, I'll just add 'Cloudbusting' and pretty much all of 'The Ninth Wave' sequence of 'Hounds of Love' by Kate Bush.
Oh Yes The Smiths and Kate too, there are so many beautiful and haunting songs cited on this thread.
Sadly this year (2013) we lost two of the finest female singers there has ever been...
Patti Page (85) and my all time favourite Deanna Durbin (91) making this song by Deanna all the more poignant... The Old Refrain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n8jqR6VzUY
This Woman's Work by Kate Bush, and Stay by Shakespears Sister are my big ones. No "personal" connection as such, they just move me like no other songs do.
I like much of what King Crimson do (or did), but I truly can't stand anything with that ex-Talking Heads vocalist.
Far better, in my opinion is this, in spite of the fact that John Wetton must be the only person ever to make it as a vocalist carrying a severe lisp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlsAjke94Xc
Stay Another Day by East 17 always reminds me of when my mum was seriously ill in hospital when I was little . Everytime I hear it around Christmas time it always makes me realise how lucky I am to have my mum around.
For me it just felt wrong seeing all the recent parodies of the song, given what the song & lyrics mean to me and my family, as well as the guy who wrote the song originally.
Skylar Grey is amazing. I was disappointed with her new album though. It's a shame she has to become more urban to become more relevant. Like Blood, Like Honey was her at her best.
I feel slightly embarrassed at even admitting to knowing about this one, but if The Carnival Is Over by The Seekers was ever played at a funeral, they'd have to carry me out in a bin liner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZipKdI1sY
Kate Bush has produced quite a few. One of my favourites is actually her 1981 cover of the Donovan song 'Lord Of The Reedy River'. It's eerily haunting and was one of the first tracks to show the young Kate's genius as a producer IMO.
Lana Del Rey - Video Games (The first time I heard this two years ago, I sat there listening, and when it stopped, I just sat there thinking about it for a long time. It was love at first sight. Now I am such a ridiculously huge Lana Del Rey fan, she means more to me than anything)
Taylor Swift - Safe & Sound (I remember listening to this and rambling round the empty streets of my awful neighbourhood one day wishing for peace. It was a very poignant memory)
Cat Power - Sea of Love (Anyone seen the movie "Juno"?)
Kate Covington - Always with Me (Plays in the end credits of Spirited Away, the most beautiful film ever, speechless, again)
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice (The devastating finale of the first season of Skins, Crystal Castles play this track live near the end of the episode. Brought whole new emotions to the song. It gave the song painful feelings.)
Susanne Sundfor - White Foxes (it's just so beautiful. that video.)
For me, it has to be War on Drugs by Barenaked Ladies. It's not quite what the title would suggest, it's not an anti-drugs rant, but a song about contemplating suicide. I think it was possibly written/produced/etc. by one of the members who left the band due to drug-related reasons, but I'm not 100% sure (just a guess).
If I'm feeling happy, it makes me feel odd, and if I'm feeling sad, it inevitably makes me cry because (as annoying as this always sounds) the song really speaks to me.
I reckon if it had been written by a mainstream group it would have been a big hit. Beautiful words and remind me of the way I used to feel after I met my husband on holiday and he used to fly home to Ireland every weekend after spending time over here in England with me.
Mine is Stay by Hurts and also All I Need by Within Temptation
Both remind me of the start of a relationship back in 2010, and the memories it holds remain dear to me. Watching Vampire Diaries and I'm sure at least one of these songs was in it!
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This Masquerade - The Carpenters
Long Long Long - Beatles
Young and Innocent Days- Kinks
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time - Smiths
Ooh, I could go on and on. But I wont.
Edit: Well, I'll just add 'Cloudbusting' and pretty much all of 'The Ninth Wave' sequence of 'Hounds of Love' by Kate Bush.
Truly madly deeply by savage garden. It was the last song I can remember my mother saying she really liked. When I get married this will be my first dance, my mum won't be there so this is her contribution
Agnus Dei the choir version with barbers adagio for strings. A fantastic piece of music and one I want at my funeral.
Skylar Grey - Words
These songs are just so deep and the lyrics.
That is a beautiful song, I've always loved it.
Oh Yes The Smiths and Kate too, there are so many beautiful and haunting songs cited on this thread.
Michael Jackson- The Man In the Mirror
Patti Page (85) and my all time favourite Deanna Durbin (91) making this song by Deanna all the more poignant... The Old Refrain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n8jqR6VzUY
Takes me back to the time I long for again.
Far better, in my opinion is this, in spite of the fact that John Wetton must be the only person ever to make it as a vocalist carrying a severe lisp. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlsAjke94Xc
*hug* I'm glad that everything is okay now.
Skylar Grey is amazing. I was disappointed with her new album though. It's a shame she has to become more urban to become more relevant. Like Blood, Like Honey was her at her best.
I feel slightly embarrassed at even admitting to knowing about this one, but if The Carnival Is Over by The Seekers was ever played at a funeral, they'd have to carry me out in a bin liner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ZipKdI1sY
Taylor Swift - Safe & Sound (I remember listening to this and rambling round the empty streets of my awful neighbourhood one day wishing for peace. It was a very poignant memory)
Cat Power - Sea of Love (Anyone seen the movie "Juno"?)
Kate Covington - Always with Me (Plays in the end credits of Spirited Away, the most beautiful film ever, speechless, again)
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice (The devastating finale of the first season of Skins, Crystal Castles play this track live near the end of the episode. Brought whole new emotions to the song. It gave the song painful feelings.)
Susanne Sundfor - White Foxes (it's just so beautiful. that video.)
good call!
steeleye span - 'all things are quite silent' another folk rock track.
kate bush has been mentioned afew times.. id add
"breathing" and
"army dreamers"
It's just so achingly beautiful. :sleep:
Reminds me of periods in your life where you blind yourself with unhappiness. And being blinded, you can only see everything in black and white.
If I'm feeling happy, it makes me feel odd, and if I'm feeling sad, it inevitably makes me cry because (as annoying as this always sounds) the song really speaks to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3wfTi3WXo
Why? For me the Seekers and the soaring vocals of Judith were the 60s...
So glad to hear she is doing well after her illness.
Stay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nP3XB7hrFo
I reckon if it had been written by a mainstream group it would have been a big hit. Beautiful words and remind me of the way I used to feel after I met my husband on holiday and he used to fly home to Ireland every weekend after spending time over here in England with me.
Help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKoV2tf1mQ
The words are so sad. In an interview they said it's the song they're proudest of.
Both remind me of the start of a relationship back in 2010, and the memories it holds remain dear to me. Watching Vampire Diaries and I'm sure at least one of these songs was in it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ40uig4yFU